Tigers Untamed

My thoughts intertwine

like wisteria vine

interlocked boxes

~the wildest of foxes~

A dam of stone, a barbed wire fence, a series of bars and chains

And the saddest thing: I've quite forgotten where I put my keys.

While the endless wall of padlocks shudder, hoping to retire,

Behind the wall that none can scale, an ocean deep, a raging fire.

Where all the creatures fly unnamed

And all my tigers go untamed

If all the water filled my mind,

You'd find the fish of bigger kind.

And maybe someday I'll unlock

Trains will go and clocks will stop

Perhaps I'll open up with ease

Despite my many missing keys.

Lion Grass

Your ever-soaring, roaring wings

Can't hide the bitter pain within...

I've been peering deep inside

Counter-weighing loss and win

I sort through many bloody thorn

Searching past for origin

Boys that cry and babies born

I reach beyond where scars begin

I run my fingers on the pane

Feel the spiderwebbing dreams

I run my fingers on the pain

And feel the stinging, burning seams

Where do seeds grow lion grass?

Fix my shattered looking glass

When do scars imprint their shame?

Lets go back and change my name

How beautiful the shattered glass; 

The colors dance off silver lines

The cracks are roads; lets travel back 

And find the roots of ancient vines
 Chest deep in wandering, pondering, thinking
In your ocean I am sinking